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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
19
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-10-14
pubmed:abstractText
Mature primary B lymphocytes represent a potentially important cellular target for somatic cell gene therapy, which could prove advantageous for the treatment of certain metabolic and immunologic disorders. Their capacity to serve as antigen-presenting cells could be utilized for triggering and/or potentiating immune responses to tumors and viruses. Alternatively, B cells expressing an autoantigen could be manipulated to induce antigen-specific unresponsiveness for treatment of autoimmune diseases. Efficient expression of an exogenous gene product in long-lived B lymphocytes could be particularly useful for providing a corrected gene product in the bloodstream. Despite these advantages, efficient gene transfer into mature primary B cells has not been reported. One reason for this is that current protocols for retroviral vector-mediated gene transfer into lymphocytes rely on in vitro expansion and/or drug selection. This precludes the use of mature primary B cells as targets, since they cannot be readily cultured for long periods of time. In this report, we describe an efficient and rapid protocol for the introduction of exogenous genes into primary B cells without the need for drug selection. We have used retroviral vectors containing the human adenosine deaminase gene as a marker gene, since the biological activity of this enzyme is easy to measure and is readily distinguishable from that of the endogenous mouse adenosine deaminase. Upon adoptive transfer into SCID mice, infected B cells continuously expressing one to three copies of the human adenosine deaminase gene could be found in the spleens of recipient animals for at least 3 months.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
13
pubmed:volume
91
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8875-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
A murine model for B-lymphocyte somatic cell gene therapy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway 08854.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't